School of Business and Human Resource management

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    Influence of employee breaks on employee motivation in Rongo university, Kenya
    (International Journal of Social Sciences and Information Technology, 2022-08) Akinyi, Elizabeth
    The Work-life balance practices can be categorized as those touching on family priorities that includes lactation breaks, role overload and work family interference; those touching on employee assistance programs includes, dependent care, counselling programs and flexible work arrangements have under it part-timing, flextime, job sharing, flexible career paths and employee breaks and leaves includes lactation breaks, leave programs, lunch breaks. The general objective of this research was to establish the influence of work life balance practices on employee motivation in public universities with a specific objective to establish the influence of employee breaks on employee motivation in Rongo University. The philosophical foundation of this study was based on the positivism paradigm that views that only factual knowledge gained through observation, testing and measuring is dependable. The findings of the research are observable and quantifiable leading to statistical analysis. In this case therefore, the researcher was independent and concentrated only on the collected facts. Therefore, the researcher adopted the positivist approach because it is commonly used in conducting research in social sciences. Based on the findings, the study showed that employee breaks are fundamental to employee motivation and are very important factors to the organizational workforce. This has been supported by the social exchange and compensation theories of the study. It concluded that leave programs, lunch breaks as well as lactation breaks have positive influence on motivation of the workers within the institution.
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    Influence of family responsibilities on employee motivation in Rongo University.
    (International Journal of Social Sciences and Information Technology, 2022-12) Akinyi, Elizabeth
    The study sought to investigate the influence of work life balance practices on employee motivation in public universities and specifically at Rongo University in Kenya. The university was chosen as a case study area because statistics from the human resource department on employee performance appraisal, 2017 – 2019 indicated that most of its employees had shown signs of low motivation such as high rates of absenteeism, lateness and poor customer focus. Case study research design was applied in the study and in this case, there was an intensive descriptive and holistic analysis of Rongo University as a single entity. The investigation of the single entity was helpful in gaining insight into the larger cases. The indicators that were used in the study were dependent care, family support, and child care. The study established that family responsibilities programs influences motivation. This was by ensuring that employees have family support such as medical cover that extends to dependents even though it needed a little enhancement as some workers were not happy with the value of provision. The findings of the study established that family responsibility programs had positive influence on motivation of employees within the public institution of higher learning. The family responsibility programs were present even though enhancement was required on compassionate leave and counseling programs for the workers within the institution.